From tome
Searches academic literature via arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and open-access sources. Fetches and parses PDFs for abstracts, key findings, methodology, and citations. Use for research, literature reviews, or formal citations.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/tome:papersThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- Finding academic papers, citations, or formal research
/tome:discourse)/tome:code-search)Search arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and open-access sources.
After acquiring a paper URL or local file path, convert the PDF to markdown for better extraction quality.
Apply the leyline:document-conversion protocol:
Try markitdown first: call the MCP convert_to_markdown
tool with the PDF URL or file:// path. This produces
structured markdown preserving tables, equations, figures,
and section hierarchy.
Fall back to Read tool if markitdown is unavailable:
pages: "1-20" for the first chunkpages: "21-40" for longer papersFrom the converted markdown, extract:
When a paper is paywalled and no open version exists:
npx claudepluginhub athola/claude-night-market --plugin tomeUse this skill for "search for papers", "find citations", "look up a DOI", "get BibTeX", "download PDF", "convert PDF to markdown", "find canonical papers", "convert identifiers", "batch download papers", "configure opencite", "literature review", "find related papers", "what papers cite this", "export references", "read this paper", or mentions of opencite, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, PubMed, academic literature search, citation management, or paper retrieval.
Finds and synthesizes research papers, whitepapers, PDFs, and academic sources using Firecrawl. Useful for literature reviews and sourced syntheses.
Retrieves academic papers via MCP tools: structured search by author/journal/year, semantic chunk search for RAG citations, and byte-range content expansion by doc_id.